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As the Roman Empire expanded north, some Scandinavians served in their new neighbors’ armies— and brought home Roman maritime technology.
But it was not only mere mortals who were served at her feast.
Female royalty traditionally served religious roles, and she was educated to read and write in both Sumerian and Akkadian, and make mathematical calculations.
In total, Enheduanna served as high priestess for 40 years.
I was taken to the secret ice cream-eating place in a little town, where we went to a back room, and women were seated and a curtain was pulled around us, and they were served vanilla ice cream.
And he served 10 years of a life sentence.
He served 18 years of a death sentence.
He served 13 years of a life sentence in Waco, Texas.
Larry Youngblood served eight years of a 10 and half year sentence in Arizona for the abduction and repeated sodomizing of a 10 year old boy at a carnival.
Ron was convicted of the rape and murder of a barmaid at a club, and served 11 years of a death sentence.
Ronald Jones served eight years of a death sentence for rape and murder of a 28-year-old woman.
He served seven years of a 70 year sentence in Kentucky.
He was convicted of rape, kidnapping and robbery, and served seven years of a 47 year sentence.
The effect of this has been that, within the first year, we really had a 40 percent penetration in the market that it served, which is over 50,000 people.
The mission was to educate the fashion industry that modifications could be made to mainstream clothing for this community that has never been served.
In fact what we're going to talk about, I think, is in fact a subject that is probably better served by a conversation than an address.
In the eyes of many people, after the animals are seized, they say, "Yay, justice has been served.
That very human lesson, more than 20 years ago, served me well during the last economic downturn we had.
I tell that story, because it has served and continues to serve as a metaphor to me about the level of connectedness that we all have on this Earth.
I negotiated with Saddam's diplomats at the U.N. Later, I traveled to Kabul and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
I'd already served in Germany, Norway, various other places, but I was posted to New York to serve on the U.N. Security Council for the British delegation.
Environmental consideration was served with every plate, but it was served with a heaping mound of consideration for human interests at the same time.
They were reasonable portions of protein served with copious quantities of vegetables and small amounts of starch, usually rice.
Lead Kevin Spacey, who also served as one of the film's producers, gives a controlled and focused performance as the power-mad mogul whose ego is out of control; he does good work, and yet the character doesn't ring true.
Sloppy editing and careless direction also adds to the confusion as half the time everything seemed out of sequence, while the other half of the film was constantly used up with these long, slow fade outs (which made no sense or served any purpose).
Perhaps it's just the format of this film, a documentary, but I believe that the movie would have been much better served by good actors and more solid dialogue.
With a little dressing up, this movie could be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
While this movie was a statement of corporate greed and the plight of the worker who gets stepped on when a large company goes under, the vehicle for this would have been better served another way.
Dinelli also served as a co-producer.
This only served to confuse the audience because the movie just plodded along going no where.
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